Thursday, September 17, 2009

Civil War Changes The Nation -by matt G. and nick

The civil war changes the nation
The Civil Way caused political, economical, technological and social change. 360000 union soldiers and 260000 Confederate soldiers died. The amount of deaths from the Civil War was more than all other American wars combined.
The Civil War increased the government’s power and authority. They passed income taxes and conscription laws that gave control over citizens. After this, no state ever threatened secession again. Economically, the gap between the North and South was widened greatly. The North’s economy boomed, while the South’s economy declined. Due to destruction from the war, massive amounts of industry and farmland were destroyed, ending slavery as a labor system.
The civil was has been called the First Modern War for many reasons. The musket balls that were fired were made of a softer lead, which was much more destructive. The invention of the land mine and the hand grenade changed war tactics and increased war casualties greatly. The invention of the Ironclad ship was a major advancement because it could splinter wooden ships by ramming them, and it could withstand cannon fire. After this invention, all wooden ships for war became obsolete.
At the end of the Civil war, the Emancipation Proclamation and the Thirteenth Amendment permanently changed the lives of African Americans by ending slavery in the United States. On April 14th, 1865, John Wilkes Booth crept up behind Lincoln in Fords Theatre and shot him in the back of the head assassinating him.

18 comments:

Jesus Alonso said...

good job with the facts, it is easy to read and understand what the topic is about good job

Paul said...

That was informative and easy to follow.

Benjamin said...

Overall, good information is presented, and all the facts necessary are presented. On a more structural level, "Civil War" wasn't always spelled correctly, or capitalized, which just needs to be consistent throughout the posting. Also, the sentence showing the number of deaths just seems very abrupt and choppy.

cory said...

Good job, the information is accurate and easy to follow.
I'm pretty sure you meant Civil War, not Way though.

Brooke said...

Good work, You got to the point quick and it flowed nicely.

Will said...

It was very good, but you might want to organize it a little bit better

Matt M said...

Good overall information presented in this posting, but you might want to try some editing tactics. Smooth out the transitions between paragraphs and organize the text a little bit better. A visual could help as well but good job

zack said...

good job with your facts. You had a few spelling errors but otherwise you guys did a nice job with the information

Sheng-Han said...

Good job with the facts, a few spelling and capitalization errors, but otherwise nice work. And as for wooden ships becoming obsolete, that could be argued, especially as not all country had enough iron to clad all ships in armor.

Jinwoo said...

It was very easy and informative posting. You made some spelling mistakes such as Civil way in the first sentence.

Frank said...

It was easy to understand. You might want to organize the text better for the reader. You can break the text into paragraphs to provide transitions.

Yotam said...

There was a lot of good information and civil war statistics in this post. For next time, try to organize the text a bit better. Also, spell check a bit more carefully because there are some errors in spelling

Kiki G said...

There is a lot of good information. Kind of unorganized and a few spelling errors

Madelaine said...

This is a good posting that flows naturally. Good job filling in the facts and data and making it not sound like a textbook. Also, it would be better if there was a visual that came with the posting.

terrell said...

This had good, useful information, but there were a few typos.

Adam said...

This posting was was highly informative and kept my attention throughout. A little editing would have helped though.

yeahitsjim! said...

it seamed like your were just writing what you saw in the book. you should put things more in your own words.

yesenia said...

I liked the great information that was easy to follow =].